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Aberdeen 2 St Mirren 0: Super sub fires Dons

On a day when Aberdeen began to flirt with the notion of Champions League football, invoking the inevitable decades-old memories of Sir Alex Ferguson, another Aberdeen legend has been pushed to the forefront in rather less congratulatory circumstances.

Gus MacPherson, St Mirren’s manager, emerged to meet the press in the wake of his team’s 2-0 defeat bristling at former Dons defender Stewart McKimmie, who has reinvented himself as a columnist in the local press.The former Scotland international has used his platform to repeatedly criticise Kirk Broadfoot, claiming the Saints defender, who was taken to Ireland for last weekend’s Scotland B international, should not be considered for the national side.

“We have been ridiculed in the local press up here by an ex-professional from this club,” snapped MacPherson, who has clearly been waiting for the right opportunity to make his retort. “He has had a go at us as a club